11. Liability of certification service providers. (1) A certification service provider shall, by issuing or guaranteeing a certificate to the public, accept liability for damage caused to any person who reasonably relies on the certificate unless the certification service provider can prove that it was not negligent. (2) The liability of a certification provider under paragraph (1) shall be limited to issues relating to— (a) The accuracy, at the time of issuance, of all information contained in the certificate and the fact that the certificate contains all the details prescribed for the certificate; (b) The assurance that at the time of the issuance of the certificate, the signatory identified in the certificate held the signature-creation data corresponding to the signature- verification data given or identified in the certificate; (c) Assurance that the signature-creation data and the signature- verification data can be used in a complementary manner in cases where the certification service provider generated both of them; and (d) The failure to publish a notice of suspension or revocation of a certificate in the repository specified in the certificate. (3) Where a certification service provider has specified in a certificate, the limits on the use of the certificates and the limits on the values of transactions for which the certificate may be used, it shall not be liable for any damage resulting from exceeding the limits. 12. Renewal of certificates. (1) The provisions of regulation 9 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the renewal of certificates. (2) The subscriber identity verification method employed for renewal of certificates shall be specified in the certification practice statement. (3) A certification service provider shall log and keep, in a secure manner, the date and time of all transactions relating to the renewal of a certificate.

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